The School Achievement – Socioeconomic Disadvantage Relationship: Examining Outliers Through Standardized Test Results In Public Schools

Abstract Book of the 8th World Conference on Teaching and Education

Year: 2025

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The School Achievement – Socioeconomic Disadvantage Relationship: Examining Outliers Through Standardized Test Results In Public Schools

Daniel Pelletier, Pierre Collerette

ABSTRACT:

Standardised achievement tests in primary schools are used as a central variable when studying the relationship between global school scores and socioeconomic disadvantage. A sample of 13 406 primary school students enrolled in 317 primary schools in the province of Quebec, Canada, took part in this study aimed at measuring this relationship on a large scale. with fine grained measures . Students’ achievement scores on standardized provincial tests administered in the last year of primary schooling and socioeconomic disadvantage scores compiled for each school were used to generate a dispersion matrix and descriptive statistics indicating the presence of a large variations of the direction and strength of this relationship from one school to the other. Implications of these results are discussed on two planes : links between school efficacy and the future performance of students, and the introduction of results based management in education.

Keywords: Socioeconomic disadvantage, school achievement, primary schools